Quotes, December 2004
01. It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
- Benjamin Franklin
02. I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
- Edward Gibbon
03. One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- A. A. Milne, "Winnie the pooh"
04. A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
05. Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
06. Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
- John F. Kennedy
07. At school I was taught that money isn’t everything and that the most important thing is to be good. When my mother found out, I had to change schools immediately.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
08. Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
- Thornton Wilder
09. What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire
10. My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties.
- Douglas Jerrold
11. Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernhard Shaw
12. To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.
- Thomas Paine
13. When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
- Ursula LeGuin
14. The book you don't read can't help.
- Jim Rohn
15. I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
- Harry S. Truman
16. We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."
- Sydney J. Harris
17. I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick - not wounded - dead.
- Woody Allen
18. I’ll publish, right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
- Lord Byron
19. I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
20. A good front is half the battle in love or war.
- Kin Hubbard
21. Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
- William Inge
22. An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
- Agatha Christie
23. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John R. Wooden
24. Ideas control the world.
- James Garfield
25. It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us.
- Thomas Paine
26. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russel
27. There are two sides to every divorce: yours and the shithead’s.
- Unknown
28. Tolerance is another word for indifference.
- William Somerset Maugham
29. A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
- Joe Moore
30. History never looks like History when you are living through it.
- John W. Gardner
31. The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
- James Truslow Adams
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